but they should not have been surprised that japan would attack the united states. in november 1941, only a few weeks before pearlharbor , joseph grew sent to telegrams , to secretary of state cordell whole . warning him that japan was prepared to launch a suicidal war against the united states and that armed conflict would come with dangerous and dramatic substance, so who was joseph grew and how did he know that western mark in november 1941, joseph grew was 61 years old. all, lean , bushy eyebrows, full mustache area he had been an american diplomat for almost 40 years. and he had been america's ambassador to japan, and i'm using this one? kenny perry better now? so i'm glad, i should recognizably long microphone. event joseph grew and then an american diplomat. for almost 40 years. he had been america's ambassador to japan for almost 10 years . there were four factors that led grew to send those to telegrams to secretary of state cordellwhole in november 1941 . the first factor was the japanese economy . the united states had imposed economic sanctions on japan i

the united states is now the most powerful economic state in the world. it has global interest. it is not weak and underdeveloped. it is a continental nation with global interests. and technology has made the world smaller. the old tradition made sense when the united states had the two greatest natural defenses in the world, the atlantic and pacific ocean. that was our protection. that protection is not what it used to be. military technology has changed. air power in particular allows countries to project their military power in a way that had never been true before. the world is smaller than it used to be. we are in greater danger from a foreign power than we ever were in the past. the world has changed. the anti-interventionists argue in that case, we need better hemispheric defenses. that's what we need. that only reinforces the idea that what we need is fortress america. we need to build up our hemispheric defenses. become so strong that no one will dare attack us. and that means every bit of military hardware we produce needs to stay with us in this hemisphere. we are a h

the united states should stay out. in the weeks before pearl harbor, 26% said the united states should declare war. that is a 20% shift of people who think declaration of war makes sense. still, most people are against it. this is weeks before pearl harbor. the anti-interventionist argument against war was still a powerful one in the minds of most americans. americans kind of want to have it both ways. they want the nazis vanquished. they are willing to send material aid to great britain, but they don't want to sacrifice and fight themselves. only when germany took decision out of the hands of americans by declaring war on the united states did the united states declared war on germany. after pearl harbor, the united states did not declare war on germany. declared war-- first. ifis worth wondering, germany had and done -- hadn't done that, would the american people supported going to war after pearl harbor/ ? this suggests maybe not. maybe not, especially given japan had attacked the united states. maybe the focus shou

entering the united states. many of these issues have been talked by the two sides for 10 years or even 20 years. finally we are making breakthroughs. these outcomes will make a andtive impact on export help expand the exports of china's agricultural sector. these are tangible benefits to chinese farmers and the agricultural industry. it will also increase imports of agricultural products from the theed states after entering wto, china has been expanding its agricultural imports from the world. china agricultural trade billion.81 china's imports now accounts for 10% of the total agricultural trade in the world. china is now the largest importer of agricultural products with a growing consumer power. our demand for high-quality agricultural products will only become stronger. also, china and the united states have high complementarity and we are each other's natural partners. the space for agricultural cooperation is enormous. in normal years before the trade frictions, china's imports of u.s. agricultural produc

commercial treaty between hawaii and the united states so that hawaiian sugar can come into the united states without tariffs. this is a big boost to profit. all right. this is a big boost to profit and as a result they expand production. because they expand production so significantly, in the next decade, they will recruit almost 60,000 japanese and chinese to work on sugar plantations. and it is then that hawaiian become outnumbered in their homeland. ok. so they're now outnumbered by foreigners in hawaii. about a decade later when this treaty is renewed, the u.s. requires a naval base in hawaii, pearl harbor in honolulu. this coincides when the united states is rebuilding the navy. they have access to ports in foreign places. and hawaii will be one of them. all right. a couple of things happen in the 1890's. in 1890 congress increased tariffs on hawaiian sugar. and so what you see happening is a major disruption to their economy, 1890 to 1893, americans with u.s. military support from pearl harbor overthrew the native hawaiian leader at the time. and the president at the time, presi

and actually we can see -- i live in the center of homelessness in the united states, known as the goldentate of california and so we can see what happens when you have too few housing units and it drives up prices, so for people on fixed incomes or limited incomes, they get driven out of the market and there's no real answer. that's why we have so many homeless people and that's one of the upshots. part of what we'll do is address the overall housing problem. one is by putting tens of billions into building houses and the other is if we have to rebuild the country from a climate statemendpoint so far ot is climate housing, and building seven million units to so people aren't driven out. if you're feeling it in new hampshire, i promise you they're feeling it in san francisco, feeling it in charleston, south carolina, people are feeling it across the country. this really is econ 101, supply and demand. too many people need to live in a house, too few houses, the price goes up. that's something that we absolutely have to do. in terms of health care, i mean, we're talking every one of these

how a great power coming of age can be handled in the international system that's what has the united states worried right now and that's what underlies a lot of this revisiting of the past and saying was this really something we should have done now even mentioned henry kissinger. former u.s. secretary of state who just a few weeks ago warned that the united states and china may be and if with heals all the cold war and he actually said that the major conflict on the scale of world war one could not be excluded. do your share such an alarmist prognosis. i think major conflict cannot be excluded i also think major conflict can be avoided on the scale of world war one there are several points where we could have had that major conflict the taiwan straits crises of 95 to 6 the high on spy plane incident of 2001 those were places where if things had gone wrong and decisions had been made wrong you could have had a world war one type conflict except there were nuclear weapons on each side foothills of the cold war is an odd turn of phrase to my mind we hear a lot about a new cold war between the

and undermined the integrity of the united states democratic process. he thus ignored and injured the interests of the nation. president trump engaged in this scheme or course of conduct through the following means. one, president trump, acting both directly and through his agents within and outside the united states government, corruptly solicited the government of ukraine to publicly announce investigations into, a, a political opponent, former vice president joseph r. biden jr., and b, a discredited theory promoted by russia alleging that ukraine rather than russia interfered in the 2016 united states presidential election. two, with the same corrupt motives, president trump acting both directly and through his agents within and outside the united states government conditioned two official acts on the public announcements that he had requested, a, the release of $391 million of united states taxpayer funds that congress had proposed on a bipartisan basis for the purpose of providing vital military and security assistance to ukraine to oppose russian

and to the best of his ability preserve protect and defend the constitution of the united states and in violation of his constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed donald j. trump has directed the unprecedented categorical in indiscriminate defiance of subpoenas issued by the house of representatives pursuant to its sole power of impeachment president trump has abused the powers. the presidency in a manner offensive to and subversive of the constitution in that the house of representatives has engaged in an impeachment inquiry focused on president trumps corrupt solicitation of the government of ukraine to interfere in the 2 $1020.00 united states presidential election as part of this impeachment inquiry at the committee's undertaking the investigation served subpoenas seeking documents and testimony deemed vital to the inquiry from various executive branch agencies and offices and current and former officials. in response without lawful cause or excuse president trump directed executive branch agencies offices and officials not to comply with those sub

we are the united states of america. we are a republic, a democracy, we are where the executive does not have absolute power. america was founded on a system of checks and balances. when the president withheld military aid to vulnerable ukraine and pressed for a personal favor to manufacture dirt against a political opponent, he went too far. he undermined america's national security. he sought to sabotage our elections. he elevated his personal interests over the interests of america. then he tried to cover up his scandalous behavior, and he obstructed the investigation. he violated his oath of office, but i intend to uphold mine to protect and defend the constitution of the united states of america. the president must be impeached today. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from oklahoma. mr. cole: thank you, madam speaker. i continue to reserve my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves. the gentleman from massachusetts. mr. mcgovern: i ask unanimous consent to insert into the record a de

but they shouldn't have been surprised that japan would attack the united states. in november of 1941, only a few weeks before pearl harbor, they sent 2 kilograms, the secretary of state warning him that japan was prepared to launch a war against the united states and that the armed conflict would come with dangerous and dramatic. how did he know that? november g 1941, tall, lean, buy eyebrows, mustache, he'd been an american diplomat for almost 40 years and he had been america's ambassador to japan. he had been an american diplomat for almost 40 years and to japan for almost ten years to the secretary of state in november of 1941. the first factor was the japanese economy. the united states had economic sanctions on japan in the effort to curb the military aggression in china and southeast asia. the sanctions had crippled the japanese economy. the streets had to be fitted with charcoal engines and imported coffee was also unavailable. it had been replaced by another group about which "the new york times" correspondent said it was better not to ask too many question

this is the united states of america. there has never been a single, solitary thing in our history that we have not set our mind to do that we have been unable to accomplish. literally, not a single, solitary thing. my message is clear. let's get the hell up and take back this country. let's vote. [applause] let's take it back and lead the world once again. [applause] thank you. folks, i will answer your question, i will come over and answer it. ladies and gentlemen when i walked out of my grandfather's house, he would yell, keep the faith! and my grandmother would yell, spread it! we can do anything! [applause] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2019] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] ♪ ♪ >> today, president trump travels to pennsylvania to speak at a keep america great rally in hershey. we will have live coverage starting at 7:00 p.m. eastern on c-span two. was nowing as he available at the c-span onlin

intersected in ukraine known for some time and former campaign said that always acted to carry out united statesolicy without regard to any activity of his son. that he had never discussed the matter with hunt per biden and that he learned about his son from news report. state department official flagged hunter biden conflict of interest in ukraine testimony this broke when they put together this appearance for reality of a conflict of interest. george kent, a career official at the state department fox news -- told house investigators that he raise concern about hunter biden on board of the gas company burisma he said in january, february 2015 -- he became aware that hunter biden on board of burisma holdings while his father joe biden was overseeing ukraine policy at vept and they sent him away, the vice president bereaving over passing of elder son they said so nobody brings it up with the vice president nonetheless the vice president intervenes. hey i have a theory that democrats like theories. they like to connect the dot you guy and journalism in legal analyst you pay attention too. maybe t

solely on fundamental hatred of our president, a coup against the duly elected president of the united states. this is a sad day for our nation when one political party along with their cohorts in the deep state and mainstream media try to hijack our constitution. the democrat majority has irresponsibly turned the impeachment process into a political weapon, something republicans refused to do when our base was calling for the impeachment of president obama. it is well past time for the house to move beyond its hopes and put the nation first, that is everywhere president trump is doing. the united states as a record low unemployment, historical performance in the stock market. president trump is rewriting failed trade deals of the past to put america first, he's rebuilding our military. he helped create the space bar sand the list goes on. i implore my colleagues to end this spectacle now. i yield back. >> gentleman yields back. >> mr. speaker, i'm hearing a lot from my colleagues across the aisle except a defense of president trump's conduct which is indefensible. i now yield 2 minutes to th

dean:'s resettled in the united states? refugees tober of resettle in the united states? fmr. vp biden: weakened hound all a significant number of refugees who are fleeing oppression. a long guy who started time ago to deal with that resettlement of russian jews in the united states of america. i was not making any judgment. but searcy, think about it. -- but seriously, think about it. [applause] i was raised by what the jewish community calls a righteous christian, my dad. until five andrk come home for dinner and then go back to work. and my dad at our dinner table there were two things required. one, you had to have perfect manners. my dad was insistent upon you could never, even in the middle of summer you cannot come with a t-shirt and baseball hat on to sit down at dinner and you never put your elbow down on the table, and you had to know which fork to use when. the other thing my dad was fastidious about, our dinner table was a place for you had conversation and incidentally eight -- ate. you think i'm joking and i'm not. [laughter] my dad used to talk about, he was a s

. >> it's always an honored to come before the united states senate. i feel humbled by that because of think of people who spoke on this floor since 1859. >> today there's a special sense of responsibility. senator coons and i have have been chosen to lead our colleague in honoring johnny isakson today. what we just heard was historic, i believe, it's not the first time that we've had a speech on this floor that addressed that topic, nor will it be the last, i would predict. but we just heard johnny add mon us to judge with our conscience and our heart. and with that, i feel somewhat unworthy to try to address what i feel and what he also talked about as his heart. today is truly a bittersweet occasion. it's bitter because my friend, my mentor and partner in the united states senate, johnny isakson is stepping down at the end of this month. for those of us who know this man, this is tough to come to grips with. i'll dearly miss him on many levels. i'll miss having him here in the united states senate alongside me. i'll miss his words of wisdom. i'll mi

is a direct reference to the united states because the united states and saddam's baath party alliance now open alliance. representatives of the baath party abroad and so on are boasting of their new alliance with the united states to kick out what they call it or a me an occupation of iraq so his reference to the return of the dictatorship is directly related to that official endorsement of an alliance between the united states and saddam as it's in iraq but they can't surely be blamed for hundreds of people being killed in the past few weeks as much reporting here maybe over $400.00 people and it's the united states that is saying that investigations need to be done into the use of excessive force by the iraqi authorities for being if that the u.s. is helping the killing there is a legitimate. concern and and anger amongst the people in iraq against a corrupt state against the brutal killing of demonstrators so there is a side to these demonstrations a very important side that people are angry with corruption with lack of public services some of which this is not only caused by these

united states. no subsequent american president of course would ever look at it in those ways. on july 15, 1958, the marines coming ashore, ike gave the new explanation as to why they were there. essentially what he said was that a coup in iraq the previous day, the 14th of july, in which the most pro-western government in the middle east had been overthrown was a direct threat to american national interest. the pro-american hashemite government in iraq was deposed in in a very brutal and violent coup, one of the most violent even by middle eastern standards, this was an exceptionally violent coup. ike identified the crew as perhaps the starting point of the entire middle east falling into the hands of the soviet union and international communism. he said if the united states did not respond to the coup, the third world war could start in the middle east, and that the loss of iraq was as significant as the loss of china the communism in 1948. it's really a remarkable statement. it's also completely

the united states has recognize that government and will restore normal relations and will cooperate to rebuild a free and prosperous panama. pres. bush: i, today, directed the secretary of the treasury and the secretary of state to lift the economic sanctions with respect to the democratically elected government of panama and in cooperation with that government to take steps to affect an orderly unblocking of panamanian government assets in the united states. i am fully committed to implement the panama canal treaties and turn over the canal to panama in the year 2000. the actions we have taken and the cooperation of a new, democratic government in panama will permit us to honor these commitments. as soon as the new government recommends a qualified candidate, panamanian, to be administrator of the canal as called for in the treaties, i will submit this nominee to the senate for expedited consideration. i am committed to strengthening our relationship with the democratic nations in this hemisphere. i will continue to seek solutions to the problems of this region through dialogue and

about china's rise and what that would mean and there was the perception that the united states wanted to keep china down a perception which given the statements american officials would make given the idea that china's integration into the world trading system for example but inevitably lead to a change in china's system of governance which the chinese communist party clung to out of as much out of a belief in its own virtue in as an interest in staying in power. that notion that the united states was out to undermine china never quite went away and given recent trends certainly has taken hold all the more strongly so i would argue that the chinese sense of insecurity has deepened even since i wrote the book and that there might be reasons for its deep meaning that are hard to get rid of now what i particularly like about your book is that it's not just the book about history i think it's a book about national psychology and without psychologizing it too much and i want to just know that it's common knowledge that the experience of chaos or the experience of instability insecur

-- duly elected president of the united states. this is a sad day for our nation when one political party, along with their cohorts and the deep state in the main street media, try to hijack our constitution. the democrat majority has irresponsibly turned the impeachment process no a political weapon. something that -- into a political weapon. something that republicans refused to do when our base was calling for the impeachment of president obama. it is well past time for the house to move beyond this hoax and put our nation first. that's exactly what president trump is doing. the united states has record low unemployment, historic performance in the stock market, president trump is rewriting failed trade deals of the past to put america first. he's rebuilding our military. he helped create the space force and the list goes on. i implore my colleagues to end this spectacle now. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. mr. collins: i reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman re

, to bring them to the united states. america say here is the deal, we made a commitment. you are going to have to live up to us. because we make up 50% of the problem -- 15% of the problem. with regards to what he's talking about, what would i do about the people in china? there's one million muslims being put in concentration camps in the west. i would and i have been speaking out on that from the beginning. , if we doot speak out not speak out about human rights, nobody else will. a flashing green light, go, go, go. look how far out of hand what has happened in hong kong has gotten. would think barack and i have waited 10 seconds to talk about that? we reminded the rest of the world that they made an agreement. got the rest of the world to say and stand up for the united nations and say you are wrong, you cannot act that way. and so you got to speak up. it's not about sending hundreds of thousands of troops to fight anywhere, it's about mobilizing the world to say you will pay a price that at least relates to your repu

here in the united states, the u.s. and taiwan relationship at times appears to perhaps be getting closer. do you have any concerns that beijing may rethink exactly where it needs to land on this intimidation strategy and to what degree will it try to work more actively to try to shape the domestic conversation in taipei right now? >> if it happens that the president is reelected, and paul suggest she will be, i think it will require and polls suggest she will be, i think it will require reassessment of how well strategy and tactics work. particularly the part about co-optation and trying to create allies within the taiwan "t táu)(p& system. or did that actually work to xang wan's advantage? i do not know where they will come out on that. my guess is they will double down on that and play for time. but some of the things, at least, that they are doing, can be deployed to ot$er places in the region. crating stronger business ties with local business elites, buying up newspapers to project a positive view of china, suppor

united states. 's visit was planned for nine days it lasted 12. the king had indicated he would bring 80 people with him he brought almost 200 there were so many studies in the delegation they could not all fit in blair house they literally set up tents to house the rest of the saudi delegation. so we'd like to say he was wined and dined but he was given great profile by the eisenhower administration. the failure of his plot to assassinate nasser resulted in a severe throwback in the saudi royal family within a matter of days stripped the king of all his power and gave it to the crown prince faisal he stayed in power as king but was powerless after that. faisal was much less favorable to the united states. so that was one big setback. shortly afterwards the lebanese civil war began and that was another setback to america the lebanese president was one of the few arab leaders who publicly divorced the eisenhower declaration but in jordan the cia uncovered a plot to overthrow king hussein who was in h

an axis dominated world will be states.t to the united it's a threat to the united states militarily. maybe not in terms of the united invaded and conquered. no, that's not likely going to happen. but it's still a military threat. imperial damaged by japan and nazi germany and perhaps even more significantly, it's an economic threat to our well-being. if the nazis dominate europe and resources ofatural europe. if the japanese conquer and resources of asia. do? will we you can say we'll trade with them but what if they don't trade with us. they isolate us economically? prosper?e grow and remember, 1939 and 1940, the great depression is not fully over yet. better but it's still on. americans are really concerned about their economic well-being. says we might be in a state of permanent depression. have any capacity to economic growth in a world dominated by nazi germany and japan.l this is a threat to our interests. danger.in our whole way of life can be dominated by orld these dictatorships. argue, whattionists will destroy american democracy is this war. if we become involved in this a

and the one that benefits the least, is the united states. we're helping europe. europe unites and goes against a common foe. that may or may not be a foe. there's other foes out there, also. nobody needs nato more than france. that's a dangerous statement for him to make. >> what will it take to lift the tariffs on these ideas? >> i'm not in love with those companies. those are american companies. if france will put the tax on, out of the blue, i'm not going to let people take advantage of american companies. if anyone is going to take advantage of the american companies, it will be us. it's not going to be france. we're taxing their wines. we have a tax on air bus. that will be a good thing for boeing. we won $7.5 billion. we never used to win before me. before me, the united states was a sucker for different organizations. now, they realize, the world trade organization realizes, if r what my attitude will be on them. we've been winning a lot of cases at the world trade organization. rarely did we win a case. they took advantage of the united states. if france p

impeached for the following articles of impeachment be exhibited to the united states senate. by the house of respectives by the united statess of and people itself, and the united states of america. against donald trump j. trump president of theai united state of america, impeachment for high crimes and misdemeanors. the constitution provides that the housetu of representative wills have the soul power of impeachment and that there will be a conviction of kraeson, private bribery, and in violation of tis cushional oath, and to the best of his ability to preserve, protect, the constitution of the united states, and in violation of the laws, he hasth abused the power of the presidency in that. and soliciting the interference. he did so through a scheme or course that included soliciting the government of ukraine, announcing investigations that would gint his reelection, and influence the 2020 united states presidential election to his advantage. president trump also sought to pressure the government of ukraine to take these steps of significant value of ukraine on the public ann

but they should not have been surprised that japan would attack the united states. in november 1941, only a few weeks before pearl harbor, joseph grew sent two telegrams to secretary of state kordell hall, warning him that japan was prepared to launch a suicidal war against the united states and that armed conflict could come with dangerous and dramatic suddenness. so who was joseph grew? how did he know that? in november, 1941, joseph grew was 61 years old, tall, lean, bushy eyebrows, a full moustache. he had been an american diplomat, for almost 40 years. and he had been america's ambassador to japan -- should i be using this one? can you hear me better now? oh, okay. so i recognized i was using the wrong microphone. in any event, joseph grew had been an american diplomat, for almost 40 years. he had been america's ambassador to japan for almost ten years. there were four factors that led grew to send those two telegrams to secretary of state kordell hall in november 1941. the first factor was a the japanese economy. the united states had imposed economic sanctions

he has a deep respect for the united states senate. he has a deep respect for the legislative branch of government. and he has demonstrated that over and over again by his leadership. you've heard about his experiences as chairman of the veterans' affairs committee. well, i had the opportunity to travel with senator isakson to normandy to celebrate the 75th anniversary of d-day, and i must tell you the emotion of that moment, as i saw senator isakson interact with our veterans and saw that genuine way that he connected to those who have served our nation, you see, his presence was important, his words were important, but he's also shown his appreciation through the deeds of what he's been able to get accomplished. it's been pointed out that the veterans' affairs committee under senator isakson's leadership has reduced numerous bipartisan -- produced numerous bipartisan bills to help our service people. and we can mention many. the one that i am most proud that we were able to get done is dealing with the health care issues because the

then the united states. we have the ability and the moral obligation to lead in this moment as well. the times have found us and we will not shirk from our responsibilities. that is our charge moving forward. house democrats will continue leading for the people, to lower health costs and prescription drug prices, to way -- raise wages by rebuilding the infrastructure of america and to clean up corruption and make washington work for you. patriotism, and with a fierce and unending commitment to what we face, we will lead. curb gun at efforts to violence and adopt new gun laws. our guest is the executive director of giffords, and conference -- gun control advocacy group. >> if the senate and president you are sitting on their hands, cashing in our hx while blocking lifesaving gun safety measures. i don't think this is a question of the impeachment inquiry distracting legislators from the duty to keep their constituents safe. this is simply a question of priority and what we are finding is passed representative

the united states and our allies cannot trust him to be a reliable partner as long as he continues to lead his country down a path of assassinations and oppression. s stated, russia should not be re-admitted to the group of ven until putin respects the principles. relinquishes his choke hold over crimea and creases his attacks over democratic institutions. maintaining the integrity of the group of seven is vital and russia should not bully its way back in. i would like to thank representative sires for his hard work on this resolution and representative smith for championing this resolution today. under putin's leadership, the world has become more deadly and more dangerous and his family have lesser freedoms and greater poverty. we need to stand up to dictators like mr. putin and this is not a republican or democrat issue but an american issue standing up against mr. putin and the russian federation. and with that, i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from -- the gentleman from texas yields. mr. smith: we have no requests for time and i yield back. the speaker pro tem

and down through the south and into the united states as well.peline corridors going coast to coast to coast of the continent of north america traversing over critical waterways through the indigenous territories of multiple indigenous nations across canada and the united states for these pipelines are now delivering oil to refineries where they're being processed outside of low income people of color and indigenous committees further exacerbating pollution as well as the emissions those communities are faced with at the source. amy: i went to the alternative climate summit and you and other indigenous youth from canada were really focusing on the teck frontier mines, which might sound to people in the u.s. like silicon valley. the teck frontier mine. in explain more what that is the kind of cross-border organizing that you're doing. >> right now what is happening teckere's a company called resources. they have been a mining company, mainly working in coal. they have a tremendous human rights abuse record. they are not a very good company. at thi

potential hornet's nest because there's a reason mitch mcconnell is the least popular senator in the united states in his home state. lindsey graham is getting a little pressure. this changes the equation for many people who are running for the united states senate. getting people involved, the american public does not support kangaroo courts and blatant expression of tilting the playing field. i think this changes the politics, the public perception. and i think time is on our side to be able to at least get fairness and maybe beyond. >> congressman blumenauer, who is pushing the idea of the hour in the house of representatives, thank you very much for joining us tonight. wendy sherman, john heilemann, thank you for joining our discussion. and when we come back, senator cory booker joins us to react to this historic news tonight. the president of the united states is impeached. senator cory booker will be a juror in an impeachment trial of president donald john trump. ♪ ♪ introducing a razor that works differently. the gillette skinguard. designed with a guard between the blades that helps protec

we are the united states of america. we are a republic, a democracy where the executive does not have absolute power. america was founded on a system of checks and balances. when the president withheld military aid to vulnerable ukraine and pressed for a personal favor to manufacture dirt against a political opponent, he went too far. he undermined america's national security. he sought to sabotage our elections. he elevated his personal interests over the interests of america. then he tried to cover up his scandalous behavior and he obstructed the investigation. he violated his oath of office, but i intend to uphold mine, to protect and defend the constitution of the united states of america. the president must be impeached today. i yield back. >> the gentleman from oklahoma. >> thank you, madam speaker. i continue to reserve my time. >> the gentleman from massachusetts. >> i ask unanimous consent to insert into the record december 5th boston globe editorial entitled "impeach the president." and december 11th "usa today

in the united states, those things are not in existence. so what you have is the ability of people to incite hatred against jews much more easily and to carry out their attacks and their weapons for their attacks much more easily. without taking a view on gun control or issues like that, there are certainly a couple of areas where the united states does seem to have very little focus although there's been a little bit of a change in that under president trump. one is the social media networks which have become real incubators of anti-semitism. what we're seeing a lot of time after these attacks against american jews is a discovery that perpetrators were radicalized online. that's where they learned to hate jews. that's where they planned their attacks. we're also seeing a lot of anti-semitism and incitement incubation on university campuses. i think that's why the executive order the president signed just now has been so important because it has enabled jewish students on campuses to make use of the international definition of anti-semitism

press against the united states.iltrations of the united states position, shots fired in the direction of the united states perimeter and position. roughing up of the united states citizens in the street. sabina virgo, a national labor organizer, was in panama just weeks before the invasion. >> provocations against the panamanian people by the united states military troops were very frequent in panama and they had several results and in my opinion probably a couple of different intents. one, i think, was to create an international incident, was to have united states troops just hassle the panamanian people until an incident resulted and from that incident the united states could then say that they were going into panama for the protection of american life, which is in fact exactly what happened. >> a group of u.s. marines ran a military roadblock in front of pdf headquarters and were fired on by panamanian guards. one lieutenant, a u.s. marine intelligence officer, was killed. the marines were reported to be part of

this morning, it's our great honor to make it lucky number 7 with the 70th united states secretary of state, mike pompeo. mike graduated the top of his class from west point. that's an accomplishment in any year, but wait until you hear about just a few of mike's classmates. one is an elected member of congress. two serve as high-ranking members of the state department. and one, we had here at the mcconnell center here a couple of months ago, the secretary of dec defense, mike esper, all in the class of 1986 at west point. so, this is not exactly a group of slackers. but mike rose to the very top. as a young cavalry officer, mike was stationed in the german capital in the tenuous months before the fall of the berlin wall. he stood at the edge of the iron curtain as a representative of our country and the forces of freedom. following his service, mike went on to harvard law school and an impressive career in the private sector. answering a call to public service, he was elected in 2010 to represent kansas in the u.s. house of representatives. there he became a well-respected member of

the united states and iran have had a complicated fraught relationship a long time. really since the 1950s. up until the 1950ss iran was a client state of great britain. but when wourmd ended and britain moved back to the colonial periphery .united states stepped forward. one of the things we did is we became very involved, irans would say very, very too much involved in their affairs. famously in 1953, the united states using brand-new cia helped engineer a coup in iran, putting into power the shah of iran, a good dear friend of the united states. after that coup that the united states helped support in iran, iranian people were of two minds. those pro shah, that would be maybe well to do people, secular ernest ohhed looked favorably on the united states. it's fair to say that a nair if you mean of other than iranians did not look favorably on the auns from that coup forward from 1953 until the islamic revolution in 1979 there were a lot of people in iran who looked at the united states and i guess the phrase eventually would become the great satan who didn't think w

the united states. still sees itself as the head of you know all of world. or wants to see itself as the head of the appalled world and the europeans of course are. will abide by the united states no matter who's in charge of the country whether it's who they most your uterus just like or anyone else but the reality is that we've moved beyond that stage the united states is on the relative decline countries like iran russia and china are on the rise. the united states is going to have to accept and recognize the new situation and i think that the fact that these 3 countries actually carried out these maneuvers together jointly all 3 together is a major significance and it sends a message to the united states that they can no longer dictate terms well it's been a turbulent year for iran and indeed the region as a whole mark by tough sanctions on the seizure of tankers looking back years from monocultural. for terror on the year 2019 was thrilling to say the least it narrowly avoided an open military conflict with the united states got hammered by new stifling

moreover, politicizing this process has discredited the united states house of representatives. and could forever weaken the remedy of impeachment. to again quote professor turley, it is the democrats' rush to impeachment on these grounds with unfair procedures that is an abuse of power. history will write that. madam speaker, as i said at the beginning, we face a choice. do you trust the wisdom of the people? or do you deny them a say in their government? fortunately the people will have the opportunity to speak up and render their verdict in 11 months, to my fellow americans. to my fellow americans, if you prove of the -- approve of the way this house has conducted its business, if you want to see your tax dollars go forward end toless investigations, support this impeachment. -- to endless investigations, support this impeachment. but if you want to restore a working congress like the previous congress that listened to you and worked to bring the best economy in this country -- and ountry has ever seen one that once again will work with the president to get things done for yo